Welcome to our professional development Wikispace. Our topic for the summer is Homework - Mindbuilding or Timefilling?
In this session, each participant will read articles pertaining to homework. Click on any of the links to read an article. If you find another article, email it to me, and I will add it to the page.


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Rethinking Homework by Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/rethinkinghomework.htm

When Homework Works by Kathy Checkley
http://www.ascd.org/affiliates/articles/cl200309_checkley.html

Is Homework 'All that and a Bag of Chips?': The Variables Required for Effective Homework Practices
http://jep.csus.edu/journal2003/paper4.htm

Students Rule With 'Design Your Own Homework'
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr373.shtml

Attitudes of parents and teachers about homework
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showstory.cfm?ArticleID=6111

Homework: How Much is Too Much?
Series Examines Increasing Workload for Young Students
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2003/mar/homework/index.html

The Case For and Against Homework
http://www.marzanoandassociates.com/pdf/homework.pdf

Homework: Too Much of a Good Thing?
This Encarta article presents supports for reasonable homework and counterpoints against homework.
http://encarta.msn.com/column_toomuchhomework/Homework_Too_Much_of_a_Good_Thing.html

A Study of Three Cultures:
Germany, Japan, and the United States

Phi Delta Kappa International Online Edition
The widely-published results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study showcased the differences in achievement levels among students in 41 different countries. The author of this article investigates and discusses the research, including the misunderstanding of the definition of homework.
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kste9803.htm

Articles from Adele-
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/03/980304073520.htm
http://www.education.umn.edu/CAREI/Reports/Rpractice/Summer94/homework.html


The nation's best-known researcher on homework has taken a new look at the subject, and here is what Duke University professor Harris Cooper has to say:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ content/article/2006/09/11/AR2006091100908.html

Homework Ate My Family
http://www.time.com/time/2003/kids/homework.html

CLOSING THE BOOK ON HOMEWORK: ENHANCING PUBLIC EDUCATION AND FREEING FAMILY TIME
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JVP/is_75/ai_n16419814

Changing the Homework Default
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/


Waldman, Ayelet. “Homework Hell.” Salon.com. October 22, 2005.
Available at: www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/10/22/homework/print.html.


http://www.alfiekohn.org/articles.htm#null

Vatterott, Cathy. “There’s Something Wrong With Homework.” Principal, January-February 2003: 64. Available at:
http://www.naesp.org/ContentLoad.do?contentId=659.

Article from Cathy
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/site/c.kjJXJ5MPIwE/b.2479409/k.BF59/Research_review_What_research_says_about_the_value_of_homework.htm